Pioneers This week saw the return of the JCC Maccabi Games®. In this, its 40th year, the Games drew 1,600 Jewish teen athletes from 57 delegations and 67 JCCs across Canada and the U.S., as well as delegations from Bulgaria, Mexico, and Israel, to San Diego for a week of competition and much more at … Continued
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JCC Maccabi Is Back and We’re Going to Israel and Fort Lauderdale in 2023!
|JCC Maccabi Is Back and We’re Going to Israel and Fort Lauderdale in 2023! Nearly 3,000 young people expected to participate in strategically expanded platform Following a two-year pandemic hiatus, JCC Maccabi®, a signature program of JCC Association of North America, will return this summer—just in time for its 40th anniversary—when the Lawrence Family JCC … Continued
First JCC professional honored by IJSHOF
|Former JCC Maccabi Games director first JCC professional honored by International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Lenny Silberman, former JCC Maccabi Games® director for JCC Association of North America was honored by the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame (IJSHOF) on July 4 as part of the 20th Maccabiah celebration in Israel. The ceremony, which … Continued
JCC Maccabi: Teens at the Center, Jewish Community at the Core
|by Jonathan Fass When Team Israel entered the arena at opening ceremonies for JCC Maccabi this summer, thousands rose to their feet in celebration. It was a powerful message of what JCC Maccabi, the world’s largest summer program for Jewish teens can accomplish. An intense, weeklong celebration of amiut Yehudit (Jewish Peoplehood), JCC Maccabi gathered … Continued
Two New Resident Camps Receive Incubator Grants from FJC
|Congratulations to Joshua Steinharter of San Francisco and to the Boulder JCC on being chosen as recipients of Specialty Camp Incubator grants from the Foundation for Jewish Camp. Steinharter will launch the independent JCC Maccabi Sports Camp, a resident camp incorporating the values and traditions of the JCC Maccabi Games®, which he knows so well … Continued